IPOH: A Perak Immigration Department director and three others have been released after a magistrate's court denied a request to remand them further. The 57-year-old director, a 26-year-old mechanic and two businessmen, both 30, were released unconditionally on Monday after the magistrate denied an application by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to extend their remand. Their lawyers, Ranjit Singh Sandhu and Dexter Mah, argued that the investigations could proceed without the presence of the suspects. If needed, MACC is free to call them up again, but until then, there's no reason for them to be detained further," Mah told Magistrate Suhaima Mohd Noor. MACC deputy public prosecutor Nurul Wahida Jalaluddin said they had difficulties in unlocking four handphones seized from the suspects.

Source: The Star February 27, 2017 07:07 UTC